3:34 AM,
May 4, 2013

Serena Miracle prays Thursday at City Hall in Newark during the National Day of Prayer. photos by Jessica Phelps/The Advocate

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If anyone had walked out the front doors of the Newark city building Thursday afternoon, they would have been greeted with the bowed heads of residents and city leaders as they joined hands in a moment of prayer.

It's not a sight normally seen outside a government building, but that's what made it so special, Newark Mayor Jeff Hall said.

"I know this is kind of the opposite of the whole separation of church and state thing, but sometimes its nice to cast all that aside and, at the end of the day, come down to your core belief in God," Hall said. "I think this is very fitting for a small Midwest town like ...